seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 11 2008 | people, health, society, politics
Higher life expectancy leads to new moral and practical problems.
Quoted: she showed graphs describing the three most common ways that old people die and the trajectory and duration of each scenario
Quoted: “We’re doing this so badly because we’ve never been here before,” Dr. Lynn said. “But the care system we’ve got didn’t come down from the mountain. We made it up, and we can make it up better.”
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 06 2008 | education, people, society, politics
Schools are evil, here's why.
Quoted: Teaching means many different things, but six lessons are common to schoolteaching from Harlem to Hollywood. You pay for these lessons in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what they are
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